Melyssa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Melyssa

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,023 babies named Melyssa between 1965 and 2023, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melyssa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 121 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melyssa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 658 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Melyssa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 394 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Melyssa in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melyssa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,023 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.